4Th International Symposium on Lithographic Limestone and Plattenkalk

Zitteliana An International Journal of Palaeontology and Geobiology

Series B/Reihe B Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Pa lä on to lo gie und Geologie

4th International Symposium on Lithographic Limestone and Plattenkalk

Eichstätt/Solnhofen, Germany

September 12th-18th, 2005

Organised by

Martina Kölbl-Ebert Jura-Museum, Eichstätt

Martin Röper Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum, Solnhofen

Reinhold R. Leinfelder Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, LMUMünchen, Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften, Sektion Paläontologie, and GeoBio-CenterLMU

− Abstracts and Field Trip Guides −

Zitteliana B 26 96 Seiten München, 05.09.2005 ISSN 1612-4138 Editors-in-Chief/Herausgeber: Reinhold R. Leinfelder, Michael Krings Volume Editor: Winfried Werner Production and Layout/Bildbearbeitung und Layout: Stefanie Klug

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Cover illustration: Mesolimulus walchi DESMAREST; horse-shoe crab with its trail; Lower Tithonian, Solnhofen (BSPG AS I 944).

Umschlagbild: Mesolimulus walchi DESMAREST; Pfeilschwanzkrebs mit Fährte; Lower Tithonian, Solnhofen (BSPG AS I 944). Preface

Following the fi rst International Symposium on ‘Lithogra- C. WEISS takes to the Northern Franconian Alb. Main purpose phic Limestone’, held in Lyon in July 1991, a second meeting of this excursion is to present new data and palaeogeographic was organized in Cuenca during the summer of 1995, and a models for the deposition of carbonate sands and the so-called third in Bergamo in August 1999. It is now our pleasure to ‘sponge-algal reefs’, as well as to demonstrate the facies zona- welcome the scientifi c community to the fourth sequel of tion along a sedimentary ramp situation. Field trip B and C these meetings held in the area of the type-locality of the Li- by M. RÖPER explore the tropical seas and lagoons around the thographic Limestone, well-known also for its famous fossils ‘Solnhofen archipelago’ with its exciting wealth of different such as Archaeopteryx. Fossillagerstätten. Both excursions focus on the peculiarities of each basin and sub-basin concerning its Plattenkalk-type and In a multidisciplinary approach, the meeting addresses va- fossil content. Finally, the post-symposium fi eld trip D by G. rious aspects of the study of lithographic limestone and Platten- SCHWEIGERT, G. DIETL & R. KOCH takes to Nusplingen far to kalk deposits, including palaeobiology and ecology of related the west. The excavation campaigns of the last years revealed fossillagerstätten, taxonomy, stratigraphy and taphonomy of spectacular results with regard to the taxonomy, palaeoecology, excellently preserved fossils of the individual Plattenkalk de- and origin of this famous Fossillagerstätte. posits, and also sedimentological and geochemical aspects. The scientifi c sessions will be organised by the Jura-Museum On behalf of the organization committee, it is our pleasure to Eichstätt and held in historical rooms of the Bishop’s Seminary present to you this volume. We wish you an agreeable meeting, in Eichstätt from September 14th through 16th, 2005. many interesting talks, good weather for the plunge into the lagoons, and a safe trip home. This volume contains the abstracts of the oral and poster presentations of the meeting. The second part is dedicated to We greatly acknowledge the fi nancial support provided by the pre- and post-symposium fi eld trips. It begins with an the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Bishop’s Seminary introduction to the stratigraphy and facies development of the in Eichstätt, the municipality of Solnhofen, and the “Freunde Upper Jurassic of southern Germany by D.U. SCHMID, R.R. des Jura-Museums e.V.” LEINFELDER & G. SCHWEIGERT. Field trip A by R. KOCH and

Martina KÖLBL-EBERT Winfried WERNER

Zitteliana An International Journal of Palaeontology and Geobiology

Series B/Reihe B Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Pa lä on to lo gie und Geologie

CONTENTS/INHALT

MARTINA KÖLBL-EBERT & WINFRIED WERNER Preface 3

Abstracts 6

Geology and Field Trip Guides

DIETER SCHMID, REINHOLD R. LEINFELDER & GÜNTER SCHWEIGERT Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironments of the Upper Jurassic of Southern Germany 31

ROMAN KOCH & CHRISTIAN WEISS Field Trip A: Basin-Platform Transition in Upper Jurassic Lithographic Limestones and Dolomites of the Northern Franconian Alb (Germany) 43

MARTIN RÖPER Field Trip B: East Bavarian Plattenkalk – Different Types of Upper Kimmeridgian to Lower Tithonian Plattenkalk Deposits and Facies 57

MARTIN RÖPER Field Trip C: Lithographic Limestones and Plattenkalk Deposits of the Solnhofen and Mörnsheim Formations near Eichstätt and Solnhofen 71

GÜNTER SCHWEIGERT, GERD DIETL & ROMAN KOCH Field Trip D: The Nusplingen Plattenkalk and Other Fossil Sites in the Western Swabian Alb (SW Germany) 87

Zitteliana B 26 96 Seiten München, 05.09.2005 ISSN 1612-4138 ABSTRACTS

ARRATIA, G.: The Contribution of Late Jurassic Fishes from Germany to Understand the Evolutionary History of Teleosts 7

BAUSCH, W. M.: Geochemical Position of the Franconian Plattenkalk 7

BAUSCH, W. M.: Revision of the Age Relationships of Maxberg/Solnhofen 8

BENNETT, S. C.: A Review of Ctenochasma: Taxonomy and Ontogeny 8

BILLON-BRUYAT, J.-P.: Comparison of the Tetrapod Assemblages from the Late Jurassic Plattenkalk Deposits of Western Europe 9

BRITO, P. M.: The Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation‘s Ichthyofauna (Araripe Basin, Northeastern Brazil) 9

BURNHAM, D. A.: The Paleoecology of Archaeopteryx - A Re-Evaluation 10

CARANNANTE, G., SIGNORE, M., SIMONE, L. & VIGORITO, M.: Vertebrate-fossil Rich Plattenkalk of Pietraroia (Southern Appennines, Italy). A Sedimentological and Taphonomical Approach 10

CHIAPPE, L. M. & GÖHLICH, U.: A new Theropod Dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Limestones of Schamhaupten (Bavaria, Germany) 11

DIETL, G. & SCHWEIGERT, G.: The Upper Kimmeridgian Nusplingen Plattenkalk (W Swabian Alb, SW Germany) 11

FUCHS, D.: Coleoid Cephalopods from the Lithographic Limestones of Hâqel (Lebanon) - A Comparison with Solnhofen (Germany) 12

FÜRSICH, F. T., MÄUSER, M., SCHNEIDER, S. & WERNER, W.: Sedimentology and Palaeoecology of Laminated Limestones from the Kimmeridgian of the Northern Franconian Alb (Southern Germany) 13

GAILLARD, C.: Recent and Fossil Chelonian Kingdoms 13

GARASSINO, A., DE ANGELI, A. & SCHWEIGERT, G.: Brachyurans from the Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) of Pfalzpaint and Breitenhill (Bavaria, South Germany) 14

GARASSINO, A. & SCHWEIGERT, G.: The Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Decapod Crustacean Fauna: Review of the Types from Old Descriptions 15

IFRIM, C., STINNESBECK, W. & FREY, E.: Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian and Turonian-Coniacian) Open Marine Plattenkalk- Deposits in NE Mexico 15

JURKOVŠEK, B. & KOLAR-JUROKOVŠEK, T.: Fossil Assemblages from the Upper Cretaceous Carbon Rich Sediments of Kras, Slovenia 16

KEUPP, H.: Complete Ammonoid Jaw Apparatuses from the Solnhofen Plattenkalks: Implications for Aptychi Function and Microphage Feeding of Ammonoids 17

KLUG, C., SCHWEIGERT, G., DIETL, G. & FUCHS, D.: Coleoid Beaks from the Nusplingen Lithographic Limestone (Late Kimmeridgian, SW Germany) 17

KLUG, S. & KRIWET, J.: Occurrence and Diversity of Palaeospinacid Sharks (Neoselachii, Synechodontiformes) from the Upper Jurassic Lithographic Limestones of South Germany 18

KOCH, R.: New Data on Sedimentology of Upper Jurassic Carbonate Rocks from the Southern Franconian Alb 18

KOCH, R.: Characteristics of Solnhofen Monument Stones 19

KRIWET, J. & KLUG, S.: Late Jurassic Carpetsharks (Neoselachii, Orectolobiformes) from South Germany 19

MARTY, D.: Sedimentology and Taphonomy of Dinosaur Track-bearing Plattenkalke (Kimmeridgian, Canton Jura, Switzerland) 20

MICKLICH, N.: The Fish Fauna of the Messel Pit: Rule or Exception? 20

PAPAZZONI, C. A. & TREVISANI, E.: New Data about the Age and Palaeoenvironment of the „Pesciara di Bolca“ Fossil-Lagerstätte 21

RUSCONI, M., LOMBARDO, C. & TINTORI, A.: New Colobodontid (Actinopterygians) from the Carnian (Late Triassic) of Northern Italy 22

SCHWEIGERT, G.: Ammonite Biostratigraphy as a Tool for Dating Upper Jurassic Lithographic Limestones from South Germany - First Results and Open Questions 22

SCHWEIGERT, G. & GARASSINO, A.: The Lobster Genus Squamosoglyphea BEURLEN, 1930 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Glypheidae) in the Upper Jurassic Lithographic Limestones of Southern Germany 23

SKAWINSKA, J.: Development of a Jurassic Basin in Terms of Palaeohydrodynamic Reconstruction (Miechów Trough, Poland) 24

TINTORI, A., BONA, F. & ZORZIN, R.: Bolca (Eocene, Verona) Fossils under a New Light 24

TINTORI, A. & LOMBARDO, C.: The Middle Triassic Vertebrate Levels in the Western Tethys: Are Fossil Fishes Useful for Biostratigraphy? 25

TISCHLINGER, H.: Ultraviolet Light Investigations of Fossils from the Upper Jurassic Plattenkalks of Southern Franconia 26

VIOHL, G. & ZAPP, M.: Schamhaupten, an Outstanding Fossil-Lagerstätte in a Silicified Plattenkalk (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian Boundary, Southern Franconian Alb, Bavaria) 27

WEISS, C., KOCH, R. & HUANG, W.: Diagenesis of Thin Bedded Carbonate Rocks in the Cambro-Ordovician Sequences of the North China Carbonate Platform 28

WELLNHOFER, P. & RÖPER, M.: The Ninth Specimen of Archaeopteryx from Solnhofen 28

ZEISS, A., SCHULBERT, C. & VIOHL, G.: The Ammonites from Schamhaupten (Southern Franconian Alb, Bavaria) - An Interesting Faunal Association at the Boundary Upper Kimmeridgian/Lower Tithonian 29

Zitteliana B 26 96 Seiten München, 05.09.2005 ISSN 1612-4138